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Five Things That Mattered This Week: Ukraine Naval History, U.S. Jobs Report, Chinese Tech, Drug Boats, Taiwan Arms Deal (and always more)

Welcome to Friday Wrap-Up. This week: U.S. jobs report, Taiwan arms package, Ukraine makes naval history in the Black Sea, Turkey vetoed from Gaza, Russia blamed for 145 sabotage incidents and more!

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Happy Friday! What a week it’s been — it feels like the world hasn’t taken a breath. Turkey got vetoed out of the Gaza talks, is reportedly looking to return the Russian S-400 it purchased in 2017 in effort to rejoin the F-35 program and even shot down an errant Russian drone over the Black Sea, Ukraine sicced another Sea Baby on Russia again — this tim…

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